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MEMRI head Yigal Carmon sits down with JNS to talk about the dual threats of Islamic extremism and white supremacy in the United States, and the role played in both by the big social-media companies.
Like other politicians in the region the Turkish president may have overstayed his welcome—are the Turkish people now turning against his dictatorial rule?
“Even in the Arab world, Hezbollah is designated as a terrorist organization,” says former deputy head of Israel’s National Security Council Col. (res.) Dr. Shaul Shay, “so the correct policy would be to increase the pressure on the group’s financial sources.”
“Israel finds itself trapped, without any significant change in sight,” said Yoram Meital, professor of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Terms such as “apartheid,” “genocide,” “ethnic cleansing” and “colonialism” have been used to delegitimize Zionism and the Jewish state.
Rabbi Shlomó Köves, chief rabbi of the EMIH-Hungarian Jewish Alliance and a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in Budapest, discusses the prime minister and his nationalistic approach, as well as the thinking of some of his critics.
The low turnout in the April 9 elections have led voices in the Israeli-Arab community to call for a new generation of leaders focused on issues important to the Arab public.
Itamar Marcus of Palestinian Media Watch sees the conflict as continuing until the Palestinians change their culture of hate and education system, saying “until that happens, talk of land for peace is a recipe for more tragedy.”